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Conquering Maya

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:23 PM PDT
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If the whole day instead of Hare Krsna Hare Krsna, we chant no Maya, no
Maya, no Maya, no Maya then that would be difficult. So the more we are
busy in service to Krsna the less opportunity there is for Maya. That is
the way to conquer Maya. The only way to conquer Maya is by becoming
absorbed in service to Krsna. You cannot conquer Maya in any other way. Its
not, first Ill conquer Maya and then Ill serve Krsna., but it is serve
Krsna and Maya will be conquered.(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, June 2011, New
Ekachakra, Slovakia)

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To see with a more sharp focus!

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:30 PM PDT
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011)

We are trapped in birth, death, old age and disease. So these are the real
traps and no matter how you arrange the society…no matter where we live or
how comfortable one lives, no one can overcome these basic problems.

Birth, disease old age and death, will always re emerge no matter what and
there we are really trapped -trapped in suffering. So this understanding
comes gradually. In the beginning one thinks:

'That in the world there is happiness and distress….there is enjoyment and
suffering….and if only I could get all the enjoyment and avoid the
suffering then everything would be great! And that's all….and its just a
matter of figuring it out. Eventually somehow or other doctor it out. A
little suffering – alright we can take, but if it's mostly enjoyment then
my life is a success!'

Gradually we realise that whatever enjoyment there is in the material world
then it is very meagre…very limited and that basically it can never fulfil
our need for enjoyment! We may enjoy but there is no fulfilment…and between
the two there is a big difference. Yes enjoy but still unfulfilled. That is
the best we can get out of material enjoyment. So what to do! And that is
temporary also! Therefore, gradually we begin to see with a more sharp
focus!

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Making advancement all the time

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:23 AM PDT
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The real progress that you make is from the first little bit of service to
Krsna and it gets more real day by day. But we dont realise it yet. I
compare that to growing old. Growing old is such a thing that it happens
slowly, you dont notice it until one day you look in the mirror and you
think, my God! Do I have a lot of lines! I never had those before. Thats
how growing old is, you grow old everyday but you dont see it everyday. We
make spiritual advancement everyday but we dont see it but sometimes we
have a moment where we feel, Im actually getting something But we are
making advancement all the time.

(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, June 2011, New Ekachakra, Slovakia)

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KKSblog.com - Conquering Maya

Too much expectation is the cause of frustration. We have in our mind
that this and this should be such and such. And sometimes we may have
to tolerate by being flexible but not beyond our limit of tolerance.
When we stretch beyond our limits of tolerance we cannot continue that
for long and finally it becomes a disaster and depression of mind
resulting in madness. As far as comfort of the body is concerned,we
need to fulfill the basic offer of it in proper time at regular
intervals. It's very important that we care our body also very nicely
because only with that we can perform our services,be it material or
Spiritual.
We are not meant to labour hard day and night like asses rather use
the body in realizing the self. The body also needs some physical
work. But in our modern offices, we sit for hours and hours and the
result is piles! We find our elders who worked for so many years this
way are suffering only with piles and other serious complications in
the body.
"To the degree we attach ourselves to a particular thing, to that
degree we will get frustrated when we lose that thing"-HH.Radhanath
Swami
And so we must be cautious in our dealings with this world. When we
get closer to something we'll have to remember and make up our mind
prepared to lose that any time.
"There'll come a time when all of us must leave here,when nothing
sister mary can do to keep me here with you. And things that seemed so
very plain become an awful pain. There comes a time when most of us
return here,backed by our desires to be a perfect entity"-George
Harrison
Therefore it's essential to keep our expectation to the least possible
extent in our dealings in this world. By nature this world is meant
for giving us lessons.

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Dinesh
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Too much expectation is the cause of frustration!

Actually the dwellers of heaven and hell are more advanced in
technology than we are. A speculation I make here is we find
UFOs-unidentified flying objects reported for so long in the sky since
world war times.
It could be possible that the dwellers of other planetary systems
travel in spaceships and that's not captured so well in our radars.
And their speed is more than that of sound Waves. So they know us well
but we dont know even ourselves so well what to speak of them and then
the Supreme Lord who maintains the heaven,hell and the whole cosmic
manifestation.

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Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com

Residents of heaven&hell are so advanced materially than we are!

Actually the dwellers of heaven and hell are more advanced in
technology than we are. A speculation I make here is we find
UFOs-unidentified flying objects reported for so long in the sky since
world war times.
It could be possible that the dwellers of other planetary systems
travel in spaceships and that's not capture so well in our radars. And
their speed is more than that of sound Waves. So they know us well but
we dont know even ourselves so well what to speak of them and then the
Supreme Lord who maintains the heaven,hell and the whole cosmic
manifestation.

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Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com

Residents of heaven&hell are so advanced materially than we are!

Air Hostess who ate Prabhupada's Maha Prasadam
By GURUDEV

......of the many wonderful pastimes of Srila Prabhupad I heard a  wonderful story that I'd never heard the second part of until now. First  part was with Prabhupad travelling to South America with his two  servants, the temple where they'd been gave them a packed lunch for the  plane, so in the air Srutakirti Prabhupad's servant opened Prabhupad's  lunch pack and served him his prasadam of puffed rice and peanuts.  Prabhupad had his fill and handed over the remnants to Srutakirti who'd  just began eating when the lady air hostess comes over and in one motion  says that looks tasty and grabs a handful throws it in her mouth.  Prabhupad smiled, Srutakirti was somewhat shocked. She then asked why  bring your own food. Srutakirti informed her  that they are vegetarians etc etc. She immediately said is there  anything else I can get you, fruit milk? Prabhupad said "Hot milk". Five  minutes later she returned with three cups of hot milk she got from  First class. Prabhupad thanked her and the devotees discussed among  themselves Prabhupad remarking that it is a natural nature of a pious  woman to serve....... Anyway over the years this had become one of  Srutakirti's favourite Prabhupad pastime stories to tell.
 
Anyway  now part two, he was recently again in South America doing a preaching  tour enlivening devotees there (and selling his book "What is the  difficulty?") and he told that story in Brazil. Afterward one devotee  came up to him and asked would Srutakirti prabhu like to hear an amazing  story? This devotee was out in some remote village going door to door  selling books when he knocked on a door a lady opened the door wearing  tilak. She then invited the devotee in and her house was like a  little temple,an altar with Deities, pictures on the walls and all of  Prabhupad's books in Portuguese in her bookshelf. The devotee just had  to ask her how she became a devotee....... She said she used to be an  airline hostess some years ago and she met the author of these books, he  was so saintly and gentle and kind that she looked up who he was and  what he did from his boarding pass name. She then got some of his books  and began to read, they said to chant so she chanted and offer her food  to Krishna, so she did all that an became a devotee from that small  contact.......... Srutakirti was gob smacked, while at the same time  understood the potency of Prasadam and even a moments association with a  pure devotee like Srila Prabhupad. Now that has become one of  Srutakirti's favourite stories to tell also.


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Air Hostess who ate Prabhupada's Maha Prasadam